HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1906-6-28, Page 6SOME SMUGGLERS' RUSES
QUEER HAPPENINGS ALONG )3011D11311
OF CANADA AND MAINE,
Boys Who Coasted Tea Into the United
States—A Farmer With a
Trick Granary.
ed at it with wistful We, but to walk
there !or a drink through the grass and
grain was too much and to go around
by the road by team where officers were
thick as flies was not to be thought or.
Behind the dark fano°, close to a little
broolc shaded by thicic alders, WAS a
&nee floor and a little booth where
lemonade and soft beer were sold. There
was soon a noisy orowel at his place,
and by noon the town and lockup were
full 01 drunks. More officers were
morn In, the ealoone were searched,
and men were sent through the crowds
to look for pocket peddlers, but none
were found. The guards an the 1ine
road reported all quiet in their direction,
and the drunks, when questioned where
they got their booze, refused to tell.
11 was a nine -days' wonder, but at last
it leaked out. Some farmers near the
line were preparing Lo lay an aqueduct.
They had piled up several large rolls of
half -Inch lead pipe. The conspirators
had taken this, and with the aid of a
plumber had laid it in the grain and
gross from the line saloon to the dance
floor and booth near the racecourse.
The pipe came out under the counter in
the booth and served both as a conc*.
tor and speaking tube. The night before
a jigger load of empty bottles had been
smuggled into the alders, and inside of
twenty.four hours a thousand of them
had been 'distributed among the 5,000
people at the celebration, filled with
liquor, besides all that was sold by the
glass.
Any person that lives on the gorder
between Maine and New Brunswick and
doesn't know anything about smug-
gling must be deaf did dumb and blind.
There are many ways to evade the offi-
cers, says a correspondent 01 'rho New
'York Sun.
In the Madawaska country, between
Van Buren and Fort Kent, the settlers
are the French Arcadians, and all the
customs officers in Maine, with the Stur-
gis deputies thrown in if they were
there, could net prevent them from get-
ting their gin from across the river. I
was there once, when the good women
If Aroostook, backed up by the law,
sent a band of officers to prevent the
poor Frenchman from spending his
money for gin, writes a Parkhurst man
be the Lewiston Journal. The water was
high, there was no fording and very
boat and ferry for miles was waicli,ed.
51 hapened that Xavier C— was out of
gin. He kept a public house, and no-
thing for his guests to drink did not
suit him at all,
But he had something up his sleeve
to iool the oMeers. A barrel of gin from
the Canadian side. was hauled through
the woods to the river, lashed to the
under side of a log with hay wire and
sent adrift with a man on the log. Now,
a log can be held at a certain angle in
the river and the current will carry it
across as It does a ferryboat—rivermen
often cross in this manner and it ex-
cites no suspicion. There was plenty of
gin and molasses at Xavier's that day
for dinner.
COASTING THAT PAID.
In one place the line runs several
miles along a side hill. 1 once saw a
gang of boys coasting on the crust
some forty rods from the road. At the
foot of the hill on the American side
was a wood lot and a big pile of sawed
wood. The boys had an old pung, and
a close observer would have noticed
that they always went in behind an old
barn on the Canadian side to stare then
they would go like the wind clear down
to the wood pile in behind the fir trees,
And that very morning a man with n
double team was there loading wood;
the blue lays in the trees probably
noticed that he was building a funny
load in his big sled box; it was hollow
in the middle with woodpiles at the sides
and ends, and perhaps they noticed that
every time the pung load of shouting
boys came down the hill they brought a
chest of tea. The load was carefully
covered with wood, taken to a village
merchant, driven in the back yard and
deposited in the cellar.
One of my neighbors once suddenly
had a call to preach and finally went
over into New Brunswick to spread the
Gospel. In three weeks he returned,
and when he came back he hitched his
old horse in the village street, near the
customs house, and had a prayer meet-
ing he the street, but no one mistrusted
that he had fifty costly silk dress paL-
terns in the bottom of his old waggon.
A MYSTERIOUS GRANARY,
ETIQUETTE ABROAD.
GURE OF WHITE PLAGUE
Dior MANG'S AND ADDITIONS TUE
REMEDY.
!low It Affected a Servant of the Spanish
Court.
A number of years ago it, was perfect-
ly permissible, and in fact a matter of
strict el/OUSUe, 101' a visitor who should
cbtain an audience with the Sultan of
Turkey to bow and kiss the hand of that
Oriental potentate. Anarchists, hew-
s% er, took advantage of the privilege,
and on one memorable occasion a tree-
cherous emissary drove a. dagger into
the heart of his sovereign, and from
that time forth the privilege has been
disallowed.
When the youthful king of Spain was
twelve years of age he one day had the
misfortune to slip and fall down
flight of the palace steps. The tall
would very probably have been attend-
ed with fatal results had it not been for
a servant who extended a kindly hand
and saved his young master, by brealc-
ing the fall. But, by a stringent rule
of Spanish etiquette, no servant may
dare touch the sacred person of the
King, and for this very "grave" offence
the servent was at once dismlised from
his position.
By a remarkable law of royal eti-
quette, which has existed for a number
ci years at the court of Siam, no per-
son is permitted to sleep in an apartment
situated above that occupied by the
Ring. A deliberate breach of this rule
hos on more than one occasion been
punished by death. Recently when the
Ring of Siam paid a visit. to Paris, e
number of bedrooms were reserved di
rectly above that in which the King was
to have slept for the dusky followers o
the royal visitor. The blunder caused
great consternation among the fearfu
courtiers, until the matter was explain
ed to the management and duly recti
fled.
It is a. traditionary etiquette custom in
the Marlborough family for each Duk
to present a Blenheim spaniel to the
Duchess when she enters Blenheim Pa
lace for the first time as its mistress
The story from which this custom has
its origin is that during the battle o
Beinheim a spaniel followed at the heel
of the great Duke throughout the day
never leaving him until victory was as
sured.
Successful Results Obtained While the
Patient Continues at
Week.
It was estimated by Dr. L. F. Flick,
during the recent convention of the
United Stales Association of Tubercu-
losis that the financial lose to 1110 publie
by consumption is $50,000,000 annually.
Dr. Flick is NN ell known as 4 specialist
in the pathology and treatmenl f
tuberculosis, and has written much on
the subject. Other physicians In at-
tendance were severe in their denuncia-
tion of various patent medicines mine
Used as cures for consumption. 11 was
said that some of the "GUMS" WM 0014-
parallvely harmless, being mostly a
mixture of inert drugs that had no effect
one way or the other, while others were
made up of cocaine, opium, hasheesh
and cheap whiskey, the latter of welch
was declared to be an active poison in
any case, but especially so in the case of
a consumptive patient.
Advocates of the home-trealment
method of cure says that this loss of
life and waste of money are to a great
extent needless; that by pursuing the
latest methods of treatment it is possi-
ble to restore a consumptive patient Lo
health while Ile still lives at home and
continues at work.
NEED MORE NUTRITION.
Mr. A. had a farm that ran to the
boundary line. His buildings were forty
rods from the line, but his granary was
only forty feet. Mr. laes farm buildings
were close by on the Canadian side, a
road ran between the granary and 13.'s
buildings, the road was on the line. A.
raised about Mx hundred bushels of oats
each summer and put them in his gran-
ary. Each winter he sold about 8,000
bushels. Of course things looked very
suspicious. The customs omcers hid
behind fences and rock piles and shiv-
ered many a winter night, Spotters and
spies were hired, and a Government
detective loafed around the line saloons
for a month in plain sight of the magic
little granary, but discovered nothing.
It was dark and deserted nights, but in
the morning A. would come and help
load his team. The detective would
sometimes saunter over and ask foolish
questions, peek into the bins and look
for tracks in the snow, and then go back
more puzzled than ever.
1 will tell how the Government was
nutwitted. Between Ina granary and
13.'s buildings was a culvert under the
road, a wooden spout was made of
boards about a foot square, and some
dark stormy night at the beginning of ;
winter the snow was cleared away, and
the spout laid close on the ground in
the culvert, under the road, under fences
and into A.'s granary. A hell with cups
(dinned ran inside the spout and a
crank in 13.s barn was turned to carry
the grain. As it was down hill a very
little effort would carry a stream of oats.
Into A's granary a foot square. A
blustery night would obliterate all tracks.
A pile of brush cut from apple trees
was piled beltveen the granary and the
road fence; this, covered with a delft of
snow. hid the plan where the spout
entered the granary on the outside, and
on the inside it was covered by sliding
back a wooden window. This was al -
Ways pushed back over the hole in the
wall when they were loading oats, to
admit light„ there being no other win-
dow. When it was closed the bin was
in darkness and Ihe hole could not be
seen. Of course., the Olitfi were delivered
in B.'s barn in New 13runswick. When
the snow began to melt in the spring
the spout was removed and packed away
until the next wInter.
LIQUOR Bel PIPE LINE,.
AL one time a certain village planned
to have a great Fourth of July celebra-
tion, and it was planned to have It dry.
The local officers warned the saloon-
keepers that any attempt to sell liquor
In any form on that day would be pvow
fished to the full extent af the law, and
the customs °Mears gave notice to all
that an extra force would guard the
Nadi leading from New Brunswick. and
all persons Caught with liquor on that
day would have their teams Men and be
sent to Pontine() lo Settle with a united
es Commission er.
The day dawned bright and door and
by 9 o'clook the trotting park at the
lower end of the town was swarming
with people to see the races. Malt a
wale away across the fields was a saloon
ett the boundary line. The thirsty look -
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BARBER -SURGEONS.
The Society Was Founded in Edinburgh
In 1505.
More than 400 years old is the Royal
Collage of Surgeons, Edinburgh. AL the
time it was founded the surgeons and
barbers of the city were united as one
ob the fourteen incorporated trades of
Edinburgh. On July 1, 1505, they re-
ceived their charter from the Town
Council.
The charter of the barber -surgeons
was confirmed by James IV., an early
Stuart King of great enlightenment and
acomplishment, who took much inter-
est in the progress of the surgeons on
account of the needs of his army in time
of war.
In the charter leave was given to the
incorporation to control the medical ed-
ucation of the city, such as it was in
these days; of blood letting, to have
the sole right of practice and 10 put
down quacks.
They were to get every year the body
of a criminal who had been executed
to practice anatomy on, and they prom-
ised in return to do "suffrage for his
soul." 01 the first 15B members of the butter, milk and the emulsion of fats,
incorporation, six were surgeons to the are fire only food administered, and on
Kings of Scotland.
As society improved and medical eci- this diet the patient is expected to gain
1772, as the result of a process in the An eletrwele system of records enables
uFeiriedglredjelYr:
once developed, the gulf between the latlotewlietveltre:0 ili)1061111gdasinas tavreackm.
surgeons and barbers widened, and 10
Court ,of Sessions, the connection was, the physicians to ascertain with scientific
finally terminated. The riencort 11' accuracy the exact consequence of the
BIRDS GOOD FOR FARMER
STUDY THEIn HABITS BEFORE DE-
STROYING THEM.
Hawks and Owls Kill Mice and Rats—
Good Word For Tito
Woodpecker.
A welter In the Washington Star says
that the easiest way to learn which
birds are beneficial is to go out in the
fields and woods and watch the birds.
He adds ;—
Probably one of the fleet lie will see
will be a woodpecker of some Icind, and
in that case ho is sure to seo 0 very use-
ful bird. Of the lolly odd species and
sub -species of woodpeckers In this
country, only one is sometimes destruc-
tive to the trees, This is the yellow -
bellied sapsucker, but as he does not
usually winter north of Virginia 1110 nut
likely that he will be seen here. Ten to
one it will be a downy or a hairy wood-
pecker. These two are much nlike in
general appearance, except that the lat-
ter 18 COnSlflerObly larger than the
former. In either case he will be found
very busy searching for and devouring
insect.seggs, larvae and adult insects
oI one kind or another, which have their
honne on, In or below the bark of the
tree.
Some of these insects are pests of
the worst sort, and if they were not
gathered up by the birds in the winter
the trees would be alive with them in
the spring, and In many cases they
would destroy not only the fruit, but in
some eases even the trees themselves.
Consumption is regarded as one 01 11)0 1Of course, these birds carry on then
many effects of inalutrition ; and the
means adopted to overcome it is son- warfare all through the rest of the year,
eatIng ants, caterpillars and crawlers nf
Ulla nutrition. In roughest outline, the many kinds by thousands, but the far -
problem was to build up the body faster mer, being busy
break it down, and the perfection of the with other matters, will
than tho ravages of the disease • could not 'be so likely 10 see them at it.
diet which will do this has been the ob- WORK OF THE NUTHATCH.
ject of experiments to which the last Perhaps lhe next bird to appear may
seven years and more have been de
voted. be a nuthatch, a bird much smaller
even than the downy woodpecker and
The Post -Graduate School, New York,
offers treatment as follows:
The dispensary at the Past-Graduale
is open early in the morning and late in
the everting, and every member of the
"class" reports there before and after
his work.
FAT TREATMENT.
Consumption is regarded not only as
one result of mai-nutrition, but more
particularly as the result of a deficient,
absorption of fat. The "class" take a
dose of fat twice a day. It is for this
purpose, and incidentally, in order that
the physicians and nurses nmy keep
track of their progress, that the patients
are made to come to the dispensary in
the morning and evening, where they
drinlc a cupful of an emulsion of fat.
Doses of fat are by no means all the
diet winch is relied on to offset the
waste of disease and hard manual work.
Fats supply only the heat or energy
which the body demande. Proteids—to
be found in all lean meats, and in
cheese, eggs, milk and vegetables—fur-
nish both energy and tissue material,
and, as the tendency of the body Is first
to assimilate heat or energy for the per-
formance of its functions, it will draw
'the necessary amount from the proteids
if it has not a sufficient supply of fats,
with the result that tissue -building is
neglected for want of material.
EARN TFIEIR LIVING.
The great majority of tho class in
pulmonary tuberculosis earn their liv-
ing without too much girth). 01 11)0 last
five cures reported by the committee f
inspection, ono was a tailor, earning $12
it week, 0130 a clerk earning $20; one a
barber, $18 ; one a salesman, $8.50; and
the fifth an elevated railroad guard
making about $14 a week. From two
to nineteen months was the tine required
in each case, and the gain in weight
was from 193f to 30M pounds. More
seeking gains than these are not infre-
quent,. In one case a salesman who be-
gan the treatment weighing 107 pounds,
increosed in twenty-one months to 16,9x
pounds—a gain of more than 50 per
cent.
Under any treatment, relapses are ex-
pected, but instead of sinking lower
and lower after each one, it hes been
demonstrated that, with the system of
dieting 01111ined the patient rises steadily
in strength. and each relapse is lesS
severe than the previous one.
WHEN RELAPSES OCCUR,
When a member of the post -graduate
class experiences one of these relapses,
or, where possible, when he nest begins
the treatment, he is put to had hi the
dispensary annex end kept at rest,
usually for eight weeks, but never for a
longer period. During this lime, bread,
president of the Incorporation of sur
-
goons was for more than 520 years a
member of the Town Council of Edin-
burg ex -officio, and several of the
devotee were members of the Scottish
Perna ment.
DON'T MEDDLE,
-
One of the most irritating feelings
against which the best people need to
be on their guard is meddlesomenese,
The chances are that by our meddle -
sorriness we mar more than we mend.
The probability is that the molt broiled
the brealdast bacon bailer than we could
have done it, and the tailor eta the coat
better than it he had followed our direc-
tions. No one cnn ever be happy in
this world who fancies himself or Inc.
born to "set it right." it would do
118 all good at limes in ell with the pia
pits, instead Of taking. uninvited, the
goal of the inaeler and the critic. One
of the most motel lemma any man cnn
Innen ie In lel things alone. tel the
elmir salmi we're Ihn maid eland 11.
Let the dinnor be served without proteat
00 Ibe gond wife ordered IL And re-
member 111111 the world 11111 have in get
along without us some day; that it we
keep hands off from 11 Tor a little while,
11 may be Morning, as it must inn, in
eventually get Along without our sug.
gestion or interference,
treatment. At the encl 01 the eg
week the impotent question of the diet
for the intervals between the exneerba.
lions must be seined, and, as hes al-
ready been pointed out, moats and egg('
are now excluded whenever possible.
AU stimulants such as tea, coffee and
alcohol, are forbidden, and smoking Is
discoureged, although it is not always
proelleable to forbid it absolutely.
IL is on this m10011)10 of supplying to
the body in great quantities proteids and
proleidesperers that the cures of pul-
monary tuberculosis are basee. For the
rest. no lunch fresh air as eircumsinnees
permit 1,1 insisted on, end the 'usual pre -
anthem to prevent contagion are rigid-
ly enforced.
quite different in appearance and man -
red -breasted nuthatch, but in either case
he will be seen to be a very important
little personage; not a harder worker
than the woodpecker, perhaps, but with
a greater appearanee of bustle. The
woodpecker usually moves from a lower
point to a Meier, or sidewise if neces-
sary—seldom down a tree for any dis-
tance, and never head first in this direc-
tion: The nuthatch seems to have no
particular rule about this; when he
wants to go up he goes up, and when
he wants to go down, down be goes, and
head first Very lime, sometimes paus-
ing in the most absurd attitudes, with
his neck stuck out at right angles from
the trunk, to eye en observer who may
be rude enough to stand and watch
him.
Or our fanner may see band of
chickadees, of whose ideally no one
can ever be in doubt, since they repeat
their -own name over and over wher-
ever they go, as they swing, often head
downwnrd, among the twigs. Very
tame they are at this season, and with
but a little patience they will feed from
one's hand or lips, as they (lid from
mina more than a hundred times last
winter. They are engaged in the same
work as the woodpeckers and the nut-
hatches, viz., the extermination of myr-
iads of insects, which if allowed to in-
crease unchecked would make the work
of the fruit grower heart -breaking and
unprofitable.
HAWKS GOOD QUALITIES.
Let the farmer now look over the
fields beyond the orchard and observe
that clear-cut figure of a hawk, salllng
in circles against the sky. lf he will
but believe it, that, is a feathered ser-
vant, working conscientiously from
dawn until dusk, and without pay, to
rid his farm of the rats, mice and other
rodents which play such havoc with his
property at all times of the year. It
has been estimated that the hawk will
destroy in one year a thousand mice
or their equivalent in noxious Insects,
and the farmer need not be told what a
thousand mice can do to his fruit trees
in the course of one severe winter. He
knows only too well, perhaps, that they
can kill more than as many trees, by
girdling them with their teeth, as I
saw many a hundred trees killed lest
winter in the same way. -
Now and Ihen a hawk of some species
Neill get a chicken from his poultry
yard, but let him not bo hasty to re-
venge the act. What other woncman
can he get to do SO much 'honest work
at so small a wage? In that hollow
apple tree by the barn he may find a
screech owl dozing, and at dusk this
soft.winged bird will take up the work
of mouse hunting where the hawk left
off.
If the farmer will only study the ha-
bits of the birds he seas before under-
taking to shoot any of them, and then
shoot only those which he proves have
done him more harm than good, his
crops will be larger.
THE FLIGHT OF SEEDS.
WHERE FIGS COME FROM
UOW THE DIFFERENT VARIETIES
ARE OBTAINED,
They Are Brought From Growers
(lamellaneic to Packing
Houses,
How Smyrna Jigs are paned for
taitafilicauit ebuyy.a correspondent
Fig trees begin to bear in thee, sixth
year, and aro full of vigor in their fit-
teenth. Teose upon low plains yield
fruit which is larger and etcher in Sae-
char1ne matter than that of the MiJbe.
but the trees often suffer from excess
of moisture in wet seasone.
About the middle of August the fruit
ripens, when 11 is picked and dried in
the open air from three to six days. it
Is then packed in sacks holding 250
pounds each, placed upon camels and
taken to the nearest railway station or
fruit warehouse. Two such sacks make
a load for one camel.
WOBK OF PACKERS,
These consigiunents from the coun-
try groves are bought by exporters and
taken to great packing houses. There
small armies of employes, chiefly wo-
n'o girla, sort, evash, dry and pack
t:n
Work is provided for thousands m
Smyrna during September and October
and the prosperity of the poorer classes
Is largely dependent upon the amount
bort mr son
osneneyp.ut into circulation in that
le
In sorting the figs classification Is
guided by color, size and especially, by
the thinness of the skin. Inferior grades
ora
dibitiTi\avtnion.
aside and sold for purposes
A certain quantity of these grades is
shipped to Austria, where it is used as
a substitute for thicory. It is said that,
on
the delicate quality of \ Imina "flee 13 "German and English soldiers fought
due to the use of IIg powder. side by side at Waterloo," he said,
Figs of intermediate grades are plac- "and in Germany we shall never forget
ed for shipment in bags of linen Sr the many benefits we have received from
other material while the finer fruit is England. In manufactures England has
always been our teacher."
"Such visits as this," said another
burgomaster, "do more than the world's
greatest diplomats could do to bring the
two peoples together. I hope many such
visits will be paid by your representa-
tives to our country and by our repre-
sentatives to yours. War wont be im-
possible. It is only when we fail to
know each other that we do not under-
stand."
And so, appreciative, happy Med en-
thusiastic, the burgomasters went back
to Germany.
"WUNDERSCHON.
The special train that conveyed the
\letters to and from Birmingham on
Saturday was gaily decorated with
bunting and flowers, and on each table
in the saloons were photographs of tbe
Ring and the Kaiser.
At Bourneville the party was received
by the Lord Mayor, and after a short
inspection of the City Council House,
drove some five miles out of the town
to Bourneville.
The German visitors expressed them-
selves charmed rind amazed at the com-
pleteness and the beauty of the town,
describing everythlug as " Wunder.
schon 1"
Although much impressed by their
glimpse of many British institutions, the
burgomasters will probably return to
the Fatherland with the same convic.
lion that the English party held when
they returned to London from Berlin
last autumn, viz., that Germany is lar
ahead of England in municipal matters.
THE BIOSCOPE IN AFRICA.
Expedition Will Secure Records o1 Wild
Life in Unknown Lands.
An expedition will leave London
shortly, under the leadership of Brian
Bellasis and Lionel Cooke, with the ob-
ject of obtaining bloscople records Muse
trattng the wild life and the industrial
activities of countries along the entire
route of the proposed Cape to Cairo
railway.
Though the enterprise is mainly com-
mercial, and hes the support of many
of the most important African com-
panies, it is hoped that IL may accom-
plish something oI scientific value. The
leaders have been asked by the Zoologi-
cal Society Lo try to get a few specimens
of rare animals, notably a white rhino-
ceros, which, they are assured, 11 cap-
tured young enough, may be persuaded
to march with them.
Ethnological interests will bo sub.
served by obtaining phonographic re.
cords of the dialects of various native
races
In the centre of Nyassaland is a mys-
terlous native city where a warlike na-
tive chief holds court. ills city is com-
pletely surrounded by walls, and is
composed of stone kraals.
To the white man it is forbidden
ground, no European having as yet
entered its gates; but e4r. Ballasts and
Mr. Cooke hope, by dint of many pre-
sents, to gain permission to enter and
take records, which should be 01 great,
interest to the outside world.
When Broken Hile the tennintis of the
southern section of the railway, is
reached, the real difficulty of the expeda
Lion will b.egin. For many months but
slow progress can be made, with the tad
of native bearers, and when the north-
ern shores of Lake Victoria Nyanza are
reached the presence oI hostile natives
and the extreme danger front fever will
render the journey somewhat pre.
Carious.
In Abyssinia the Emperor Mental* will
be visited, and animated picttutes of
London will be shown to 1111n, in rehire
for whin 11 (8 hoped permission will be
granted to bring borne to London re-
cords of life in the most gorgeous collet
in Attica.
From Abyssinia the expedition will
strike back to the Nilo, and proceed by
steamer end rail to Cairo.
GERMAN BURGOMASTERS'IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND
WERE DELIGIITE.D WITII THEM
VISIT TO ENGLAND.
Have Been Studying British Institu-
tions, and Speak Highly of
English People.
"Our visit to England has completely
changed our ideas of English people.
"We camp here half expecting to be
received with a feeling closely akin to
coldness, We leave charmed with every-
thing we have seen, and convinced Writ
there exists In England the greatest
feeling of sympathy fur Germany and all
that concerns her."
Such were the words In which a Ger-
man burgomaster expressed himeelf on
Saturday evening before he and Ins
fellow-visiters left London on their way
home.
They bad only Just returned from
Bonneville, the charming garden city
in which Cadbury's chocolate is made,
and where they had been received with
the greatest cordiality by the millionaire
chocolate manuiagturer,
ALL DELIGHTED.
All the visitors were delighted with
what they had seen during their visit to
London—a visil which had included a
reception by the King, a trip 10 Wind-
sor Castle and Buckingham Palace, and
a luncheon with royalty at the Guild-
Vossen, of Aix-la-Chapelle, aptly
110111e.rr
expressed the sentiments of the party
when, after luncheon at Booneville on
Saturday, he said that -until certain ele-
ments had stirred up strife in some way
between the two countries there was no
bad feeling among the people.
GERMANY'S TEACHER.
ts It may be white -breasted or a
carefully packed In boxeg containing
nea
!tom one to eleven pounds. Each fig
of the best grades is subjected to a
certain manipulation before being pan-
ed.
During this operation the workers
continually dip their fingers in sea wa-
ter. As a result of the treatment, it :s
said, the fruit is better preserved and
retains its sweetness after long keep-
ing.
SEVERAL VARETIES.
Most, persons probably think that
winged seeds from trees travel to great
(listened on the wind. But the studies
of Doctor Ridley of the Botanic Gar-
dens at Singapore indicate that winged
needs have a 'far narrower rtutge of
flight than do "powder seeds and plumed
seeds. The greatest. distance travelled
by the winged fleet Of a forest tree, ole -
served by Doctor Ridley, was 100
Under the 1110S1 favorable eireumstancee
he calculatesit would take this plant
100 years to spread 300 yards, and 1,-
100,003 years to spread from the Malay
Peninsula to the Philippines, if a land
connection existed.
*Can't I do something for you?"
"No, thanas, I don't believe in quacks"
"Macaroni" ilgs are those whin have
been gently rolled between the palms
nt the hand. "Loucoun" figs are those
which have been pressed into rectangu-
lar shape.
Most of the choicer varieties are pack-
ed layers. The upper side of the fruit
11 split and the fig is flattened. The
"Macaroni" style of packing involves
the least dlsturbance of the llg's inter.
nal structure. Boxes of figs are general -
le exported in crates holding about 330
pounds.
Last year unsorted figs arrived at
Smyrna from the Interior sold at prices
ranging from $2.80 to $150 a quintal of
125 pounds. Packed for export, the
prices ran from $2.25 to $12.50 for 112
pounds, according to quality. The crop
was exceptionally large, amounting to
over 20,000 tons. Much of this • was
sold long before it was packed.
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FORTUNES IN ninDs, NESTS.
Four Specimens of the Great Auk Eggs
Worth a Small Fortune.
The enormous value attaching to the
eggs of birds which have become ex-
tinct has been recalled by the accident
that has befallen the specimen of the
great auk, which constitutes one of the
treasures of the Scarborough (England)
Museum. Kept securely guarded in the
safe, it was recently placed.on public
exhibition. By some means or other a
has become cracked, and its value has
been depreciated by more than 1260.
These eggs, which were as plentiful as
the ordinary chickens' eggs in the early
part 01 11)0 last century, are now worth
small fortunes. The highest price rea-
lized for a specimen was 12315, paid by
an enthusiastic collector in North Lon-
don, who now boasts four of these eggs,
representing a total value of £1,415.
There is one now carefully preserved
under a glass case in the National Mu-
seum at Washington, which the Ameri-
can authorities value at no less than
12I,000. When first brought into the
market this specimen was sold in 1851
for 122.
The stories associated with the (Rs-
posal of some of these specimens aro
highly romantic. In 1870 a Soolehman
picked up Iwo' eggs at en Edinburgh rale
for 165, each, A Mlle later he parted with
his bargains for no less than 12480.
Another specimen purchased for 1240
realized subsequently 12180 from an
American collectoe. There are only
about, eighty of these eggs in eeistence,
of whin the British Museum possesses
twelve, representing a value not far
short of 45,000.
Valuable though the egg of the great
nue Is, it cannot, compare with that al
the aepyornis, or moa, which thrived In
Madagascar S0144 two hundred years
ago. The egg is about twelve inches in
length, and the number known to be in
existence nen be counted upon the fln-
gars. When the first specimen was
brought to Europe, in ISM, it aroused
the greatest excitement. There Is one
specimen preserved in the British Mu -
sem whir% was obtained In (mile a
romantic manner. 11 WON pieleed up in
1807 floating in a bey off Whipsaw.
its Table is inealculable. since it consti-
tutes ono of the most extraordinary
Mice of its type. It. Is impoesible to es-
timate its mfirketable rein, for the Min.
ple reason thet an egg of Ibis bird has
not boon 1)111111) at auetton within recent
years.
A NAUTICAL DESCRIPTION.
sailor who wns looking tor Work,
caned at 4 certain farm to set if the
farmer nuld find him a job.
Farmer 1 "been working anywhere
511100 you left your ship?"
Bailor: "Yes."
Farmer 1 'What sort of work ?"
Sailor dunno It
was en some sort et 0 mechine. They
p111 alf the wheat dnwn her =In hatch
an' the airaw come right. o»t of her
bows, en' there .vas biVe bags hooktiii on
to her -stern to catch the other stutr."
NEWS Hy MAIL ABOUT .101IN 08141
AND 1110 PEOPLE.
Occurresnuciocellt: inthetheLacriodninehieetkalteleneet
World.
Over 000 people go mad every year
in London.
coLlivedmitun6ItleytrenotI itneleLphleionuenitneidessKaignegsdornIce,
was 1,05e,000,000.
GI the thirty new magistrates for
Liverpool twenty-one are Ltherals, two
Nationalists, end tem Labor.
The deuth is announced of Alderman
Henry T. 13rown, twice mayor oI Ches-
ter.
Lord Manes Beresford, whose terra
of command of the Mediterranean fleet
will expire next, year intends to nem
to political life.
Cromwell House, Huntingdon, which
le built on the sito of the birthplace 01
°fleet. Cromwell, is to be sold by atm-
LidEv
ni.'e of seven sons who were sum-
moned at Kingston were ordered to,
pay ls. a week each towards the sup-
port of their falter.
The Prince of Wales has appointed
Sir II. H. Cherles, le.C.V.O., 54.D., to
ihictigahnpohssysician-imordinary Lo his Royal
The National Rifle Association pro-
poses to hold a boys' camp at 13151157
from July 30 to August 14, to encour-
age rifle shooting In schools.
In celebration of the Spanish Royal
eiverledad.,i,ng some parents in North London
ere about to christen their child "Al -
The chauffeur who drove Ring Alfon-
so during the recent visit to England'
has been decorated with the Spaniel
Order of Isabella the Catholic.
Sixteen Ihnueand children die from
suffocation every year in England, said
Mr. Wynne E. Beeler at an inquest m
East London on Saturdny.
"The real extravagance of Me Senile
African war, which cost 42.10,000.000,
was unpreparedness," said Lord Rob-
eres, speaking to an assembly at the,
Mansion House, London.
A college cap or "marine board" mado•
of straw awl colored while or black has
Just been placed on the market.
By Princess Ena's special request, it
is stated, King Alfonso will throw Spain,
open to the influence of the Salvation
Army.
The male births In London last year,
the Registrar -General 'repoets, were In
proportion to the female births, 1,02.8 10
1,000.
Mr. George Whight, of Highgate, has
len X8,000 and his household effects to
Florence Filehett, who was in his ser-
vice thirty years.
The document signed by King Edward
VI. providing for a mint and assay of-
fice for Canterbury in 1547 has been
sold at Sotheby's for 4450,
Interesting relics have been recovered
by a diver from the wren of 11. M. S.
Ramillies, which went to pieces on the
-
rocks near Bolt Tail, on the Devon
coast, on Februnry 15, 1700.
The Ring has sant 20,000 willow sap-
lings to the Midland Reafforesting As-
sociation. They will be planted on the
pit mounds in whin the Black Country.
many of which have already been Enos-
fdILl
Taceide.s are to be admitted as profes-
sional accountants by the new Institute
of Accountants and Bookkeepers, at
which SIr Albert leollit is preeldent.
The following appeared in Tuesday's
"fAndon Gazette": General Sir G. 13.
Wolseley, K, C. 13., retires on retired
pay; Lieutenant -General Donald J. S.
McLeod, C. 13i, to be a general in the•
army.
Sir William I -Iceland, M. P., has giv-
en notice to move, In the House of Com-
mons, MM. "in view of the altered cir-
cumstances, it is desirable that the ques-
tion of the Channel Tunnel between
this country Ind Feance 'should be con-
sidered."
CHINESE IGNORANCE.
Firm u "01 telt yez they's no use
thrryin' lo Itlfficmale 1111m Chiontese."
M111hooley 1 "Ave pkwy is lied?"
Flynn ; "01 JI11 nektel W1111 111, thin •
the Chionnese worelid for 51.
Day, an', bedad, he couldn't toll me"
KANGAROO HUNT 1N ENGLAND.
Truant Animals Emmett Prom Collec-
tor Dety Decepture.
The unusual event 01 11 ((engem hunt
has occurred near Crawley, Sussex,
England.
Sir Edmund Giles Loder, Bane, of
Leonardsee Park, Horsham, has a pri-
vate zoological collection, said to bo the
second best in the country. Sotne of the
kengaroos a short time ,ago escaped
from their enclosure, end, notwith-
standing the efforts of the °stele work-
men to recapture them, got right away.
The animals were seen a few dnya
subsequently in St. Leonard's Forest,
and later wore observed in Tilgate
Forest, Crawley, several miles from
their piece of confinement. The far-
mers in the neighborhood have been
somewhat alarmed at the appeernnee of
the kangaroos, it being known that the
animals In their native haunts are very
destructive to gross and crops.
During the last few cloys kangaroo
'hunts have been frequent In the district,
but so far no capture has been made.
Friday a young kangaroo wns found
dead in the tercet, having epparently
suCcumited to the cold, and the farmers
who regard the kangaroos as unwelcome
additiens to the already ninnerous term
pests, would rehalee to learn (lint the
remainder had either been captured or
met with a similar fate.
1
THE CAKE.
Mr. Newlywed : "Did you say this
VMS pound cake, my dear?"
Mrs. Newlywed: "Yes, preolous, and
1 Made it myself."
Mr. Newlywed: "Aro you quite sure
you—era-pounded it enough?"
A DISCOURAGING ANALOGY,
"I have.pen, ink, and paper," said the . •
literary gill, "4(11 need is some Ideas
In order to write a good novel."
"I have similar materials in my
room," answered her brothele. "Aill I
need IS -a bank acount to write a good
cheque."
Hastess : "Have you got as !nun as
you Would like, Johimy 7" Johnny
(eyeing the good things on the table) e
"Well, I henna got as ma, as 1 would
like, but I've got as Int.ia 411 1 OSA
h010.1
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